Paddy Mc Laughlin (Down) the winner of the Dublin American 8Ball Open, pictured with Manny Byrne (Down) the runner-up.
Ireland Pool Players Involved In Feast Of American Pool Events
Last weekend saw a feast of high profile American Pool Events take place on Irish soil and on the world stage. The Irish events saw a host of top local Irish players, a good number of top Scottish players and a lot of other players representing other European Countries all making there way to TJ’s American Pool Club in Newry Co. Down for the staging of the two official ranking tournaments in American 8 and 9 ball categories on Ireland’s American 8 & 9 Ball Tour.
But it was a few days before that all Irish interest was on Paddy Mc Laughlin and Tommy Donlon when they were representing Ireland under the bright lights of the TV cameras in the 2006 World Cup of Pool which took place in Newport South Wales.
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GB 9 Ball Tour (GB9) - Event 2 Report
GB9 2025 Event 2
What an event we've had. 75 entries, with plenty of participants from the first event, a load of new faces trying out GB9 for the first time, and a few who have played in GB9 in the past, wanting to see what the new GB9 is about.
The main event was so full of quality with sterling performances throughout the comp, but it was Fraser "the Razor" Patrick who came through after a sustained challenge from Ramesh "Ramma Jamma" Gokhul, winning 11-7.
The Quarter Finalists alone were full of absolute beasts of players, and big names like Benji Buckley, Sunesh Garib, Mark Foster, Matthew Rigley, Phil Wildman, and Imran Majid weren't able to progress to the last 16. The quality on show was exceptional, but Fraser really is playing with huge confidence and rightly so. He was pushed hard by Stephen Ellis, Adrian Pollard, and Carlo Blasi, en route to the final, but he just had too much for all the challengers. Well done to Fraser, in his first ever GB9, and should point out that he's an incredible person to talk to. Zero arrogance, but 100% confident.
The Tiered Events were really competitive too. Tier 1 was won by Event 1's Main Event Champion, Stephen Ellis. By his own admission, Matthew Rigley had played better than him in the final, and would count himself lucky that Matthew didn't go on to win. Both finalists had extremely tough matches to get to the final, as Stephen had to win against Imran Majid and Mark Foster, whilst Matthew had to beat Phil Wildman, Adrian Pollard, and Ashik Nathwani. No such thing as an easy game.
Tier 2 Champion was James Lee who overcame Karl Williams in what proved to be an incredibly tense final where Karl had looked like he was in complete control. But James showed incredible resilience and took advantage of any mistakes Karl made.
We even ran a flyer on the final day, for anyone not scheduled to play on the final day. It was a great opportunity to keep people playing pool, no matter the standard, and a lot of fun was had. Fraser Patrick took it down, winning 5-4, but David Hine will feel gutted that he didn't win after leading 4-1.
Winner of the Mosconi VIP Tickets is Glen Bailey, and winner of free entry to Events 3 & 4 is Harry Harrison.
A huge thanks to Spots and Stripes for their support and hospitality. Their facilities really are top notch, and their staff clearly care about the game. Without Spots and Stripes, GB9 could not go ahead.
The officials, Andy, Dean and Julian. Whilst none of us have huge experience of organising these events, they do nothing but put every ounce of effort into making the competition run smoothly. After two events, we've done pretty ok, but we know we can improve. They're a small team too, but they've done so well.
Special mention to Julian for his constant monitoring of matches. He does over 20,000 steps a day, although it could be argued that his little legs are the equivalent of 12,000 steps of others, but he's like a Duracell bunny. So committed, full of energy, and on the lookout all of the time.
A massive thank you to the media team. Sam Jones puts on the best stream I've seen through TYP Live, and Ben Grady puts out the very best reels that gives everyone a flavour of each day, and takes loads of photos that have just been published. Both of these guys never stop working and the production that they're able to provide reflects what GB9 intends to do. To be the pinnacle of the game in the UK.
Also a huge thanks to Ben Taylor-Fuente for his amazing commentary skills throughout. And to Graeme Hamilton, Paul Taylor, Carlo Blasi and Dave Hopkin for their commentary during the various finals. What a great job they all did.
Not forgetting the incredible work that Andrew Phan does behind the scenes as our creative consultant and designer. He's done so much to ensure that we have a recognisable brand.
Rob Jones for being our incredible website developer, and with Dave Goldsmith helping, there will be some serious improvements and updates to the website and social media over the coming months.
Finally, to you the players. You're incredible, and you're investible. Your attitude at events is infectious, it's motivational, and it's a lot of fun. GB9 talks a lot about retaining GB9's integrity. Whether you're one of the top players or a Tier 2 player, you're all equal in our eyes, you're part of the community, and all we want is for you to enjoy the event and feel you've gotten value for money.
Many thanks again and remember that Event 3 runs from 12-14th September. Registrations will open in around two weeks time. We strong recommend looking at accommodation booking as early as possible.
P.S. I'm not in the office until Wednesday, but will prioritise payouts on Wednesday. I will follow up with a report and player survey shortly after so we can make Event 3 bigger and better.
IT'S THE THRILL OF VICTORY AND THE AGONY OF DEFEAT AS JUDGEMENT DAY TAKES ITS TOLL AT THE CHINA OPEN 9-BALL
There’s nothing quite like Judgement Day in the world of professional pool. Otherwise known as the Day of Reckoning, it’s when dozens upon dozens of matches take place in the group stages, all trying to determine who will still be around for the money rounds, and who will be sent packing without a dime to spend on even a soft drink. Yes, pool can be a cruel sport, but it’s also the reason those who follow it love the action. Sometimes whole careers ride on the smallest turn of the ball.
And so it was on Day 2 of the 2013 China Open in rainy Shanghai. Inside the cavernous and chilly Shanghai Pudong Yuanshen Stadium arena, the emotions were running on overdrive with the world’s best men and women pool players each desperately trying to reach the single elimination knockout stage of their respective tournaments which begin in earnest Saturday.
For the men, their field began with 64 players on day 1 and has now been whittled down to 32. For the women, the field started with 48 players and is now down to the final 16.
Few were immune to the drama today. World 9-ball Champion and world number 3 Darren Appleton thought he was cruising through to the knockout stage as he was up 7-3 in a race to 9 on the TV table against China’s 19 year up and comer Wang Can. But Can, who has spent some time playing pool in the US, turned the tables on the Brit and stormed back and grabbed an 8-7 lead. Appleton went from counting his chickens, to realizing he might have to play again later to stave off a shock elimination. But if anyone can play with their back against the wall it’s Appleton, and the 9-ball king grit his teeth and pulled out the win to advance.
Appleton was clearly ecstatic afterwards and said he was nearly overwhelmed by the magnitude of the moment.
“I was under serious pressure at the end,” he said. “It was like a semi-final at the world championship.”
Appleton has few if any weaknesses in his stellar game, but he revealed that he sometimes lets his attention lapse when he gets a big lead.
“In every major tournament I’ve won I never make it easy. I consider myself a bulldog, a fierce player. I like to scrap, sort of like a counter puncher in boxing. But when I have a big lead I tend to lose that intensity. I need that scrap. My mindset was when I was 8-7 down that I will probably dog the shot, so I might as well go for it. I need to sort out my attitude when I get a big lead.”
While Appleton went off to breath easy, Cam had to do it all over again, this time against Dutch star Niels Feijen. Feijen had lost his first match yesterday against the former two time world champion Wu Jiaqing(formerly Wu Chia Ching) who now lives and plays out of Shenzen, China. Feijen had earlier beat his good friend and countryman Nick Van Den Berg in a do or die match, 9-7. Against Can, Feijen was up 8-5, but Can fought his way back to tie it at 8 for a one rack decider. Feijen pulled it out to advance while Can was left to wonder what might have been.
The pressure matches kept popping up around the arena. Greece’s Nick Ekonomopolous, who had earlier lost to Wu, went hill-hill with Venezuela’s Jalal Yousef, who was sure he was about to claim one of his biggest scalps. But a fluked 4-ball off a jump propelled the burly Greek into the knockout stages, while Yousef stormed out of the arena in disgust.
Germany’s Thorsten Hohmann advanced but not without some heart palpitations, as he won two straight hill-hill matches. Hohmann’s countryman, Hall of Famer Ralf Souquet, had to battle back from the losers side and barely got by China’s Liu Haitao in a do or die match, 9-8.
The Philippines’ two biggest stars played drama free as defending champion Dennis Orcollo advanced to the final 32 with an airtight 9 – 7 win over Austria’s young gun Albin Ouschan 9-7. Lee Van Corteza also advanced with his second straight, a 9-6 win over Vietnam’s Do The Kien.
The Philippines’ Jeffrey De Luna will surely be trying to forget Judgement Day. De Luna flew to China without a place in the tournament and won one of the brutally tough qualifiers earlier in the week. Yesterday De Luna was millimetres away from a spot in the money rounds, only to lose on the last ball. Then today, playing against fellow Pinoy Carlo Biado, De Luna squandered his fortune again losing 9-8 after up being 8-7. Biado advance and De Luna hit the road.
The Philippines’ fourth player in the final 32 has turned quite a few heads in the last few days and is definitely worth a mention. Johann Chua, who originally hails from Bacolod City but has resided in Manila for the last ten years, is one of those gems that periodically emerges from the Philippines bustling pool halls. Chua’s aggressive, confident style and dead eyed stroke had even the partisan Chinese fans talking.
To give you an idea of his confidence, Chua, like De Luna, came to China without a spot in the tournament and won a qualifier to earn a place in the main event.
After easily beating Chinese Zeng Zhaodong 9-3 on day 1, Chua tangled with WPA world number 6 Ko Pin Yi of Taiwan. Despite the fact that Ko had much more world class experienc, Chua played and acted to Ko’s equal and, indeed, he took the match to a one rack decider before falling 9-8.
Not to be deterred, Chua then came right back and booked his spot in the final 32 with a resounding 9-1 pounding of the strong Albanian, Nick Malaj.
Afterward Chua revealed that he’s been playing pool for ten years, mostly gambling in Manila’s hard core money-game scene and entering tournaments when he can. In November, 2012 he took 3rd place in the prestigious All Japan Open. What’s great about Chua is that he plays and thinks aggressively, and clearly has the game to back it up.
“I’m an aggressive player because you have to be aggressive here, there are a lot of good players. Pool is my life. I love pool.”
Chua's biggest test to date comes right out of the gates on Saturday. He plays defending champion and fellow Pinoy Orcollo in the round of 32.
Perhaps the strongest looking contingent so far have been the players from Taiwan, who bring seven players into the final 32, all of them extremely capable. It would be surprising not to see a player from Taiwan in the semi-finals.
On the women’s side, the script went nearly to plan as most of the sport’s biggest stars have booked their spot in the final 16. Defending champion Kelly Fisher was down 4-1 to the legend Pan Xiaoting in front of a packed house on the TV table. Fisher, though, caught one of her now famous gears and ran Pan off the table, 7-4.
Pan then went to the losers side and lost to Japan’s Chichiro Kawahara to exit stage left from the building, much to the disappointment of her legions of fanatical fans. Another marquee matchup then took place on the TV table as Hall of Famer Allison Fisher went to the brink with World 10-ball champion Ga Young Kim. Fisher took the match 7 – 6, sending Kim out of the tournament.
Austria’s Jasmin Ouschan looks the goods as she easily advanced to the final 16 with two straight wins.
Both the women’s and men’s single elimination knockout stages begin on Saturday at 1:30pm Shanghai time(GMT +. The men are playing race to 11 alternate break, while the women are playing race to 9, alternate break.
The women’s final will be played on Sunday with $30,000 going to the winner. The men’s semi-finals and finals will be played on Sunday as well with $40,000 going to the winner. The total prize fund is $301,000.
TWO TIME WORLD CHAMPION WU JIAQING (FORMERLY WU CHIA CHING) MAKES SURPRISE SPLASH IN ACTION PACKED DAY 1 AT 2013 CHINA OPEN
You don’t come to the China Open with the gall thinking you are going to win this tournament. You just hope to survive long enough, say to the semi-finals, where you then have as good a chance as anyone to pull off a career defining victory.
It’s not only the stacked field comprised of most of the world’s best male and female pool players that makes the odds so long. It’s the conditions. Lightning quick tables, generous pockets, template racking which practically guarantees one, two and sometimes even three balls on the break. The result is the ultimate equalizer, a wide open shootout with the world’s best gunslingers letting it all hang out.
Welcome to the Wild West of professional pool.
“It’s really hard to say what’s good and what’s bad out here because it’s so easy to pot balls,” said 2011 China Open champion Chris Melling, after he staved off elimination on day 1 with a losers side win over American Oscar Dominguez. “The pockets are so big and the cloth is so fast. Everyone’s making two and three balls on the break. It makes the whole tournament level. I think we’re going to have a surprise winner here.”
Maybe or maybe not. Things may look topsy turvey at the beginning, but the pressure that is unique to professional pool at this level tends to favor the best and the bravest. And pool generally follows the tenets of that famous phrase, “the crème always rises to the top.”
Indeed day one of the 2013 China Open 9-ball inside the Shanghai Pudong Yuanshen Stadium arena in Shanghai produced plenty of nail biting, down- to-the-wire drama, but few shockers.
Leading the pack in the men’s event, which features 64 players divided into 8 groups of eight playing double elimination, was the defending champion Dennis Orcollo of the Philippines. Orcollo had no time to get loose as he immediately found himself in a dog fight with unknown Taiwanese Ahen Yuxuan. Yuxuan had the race to 9 match tied at 7 but succumbed to the pressure late and handed Orcollo a 9-7 win.
China’s number one player Li Hewen, who came within one rack of winning the 2012 World 9-ball Championship in Qatar, came from behind in a TV table match against Orcollo’s talented countryman, Carlo Biado, and won 9-8. Later on, Li laid down his marker when he easily beat Canada’s John Morra to advance to the knockout stage of 32. Biado, who is due to go far in a major tournament, later got his feet back under himself with a 9-1 drubbing on the losers side over China’s Zhou Long.
Taiwan looks set to put its usual dent in the proceedings as world number 1 Chang Jung Lin, along with Ko Pin Yi and Fu Chei Wei all won handily with Fu already advancing. In all, Taiwanese players won 8 out of 11 matches today.
As befitting a major tournament, there were some high quality matches straight out of the gates that could have easily been contested as finals. Former World 9-ball champion Alex Pagulayan went up against former World 8-ball champion Karl Boyes in the first round. Pagulayan took advantage of just a few mistakes by Boyes and won 9-5.
European Mosconi Cup teammates Nick Van Den Berg of Holland and Nick Ekonomopolous of Greece took their match to a one rack decider with the Nick the Greek squeaking by, 9-8.
One of the most intriguing matches of the day pitted Hollands talented Niel’s Feijen against two time former world champion Wu Jiaqing(formerly known as Wu Chia Ching.) Wu, who made pool history back in 2005 when he won the World 9-ball championship when he was just 16 years old, and then went on to win the World 8-ball championship just five months later, only recently completed a 16 month stint in the Taiwan military. And this was on the back of four straight years of personal drama and intrigue which has left the sport without one of its biggest stars. In the military Wu was forced to mop floors and clean windows for the entire time and he never once touched a cue stick. In addition, in August of last year, Wu was diagnosed with Lukemia. Fortunately doctors caught the blood disease in its very early stages and Wu says it can be controlled with medication.
Having only practiced for one month since being discharged from the military, Wu came into the match against Feijen with no expectations. Wu, however, looked like the boy wonder of old as he thumped the Dutchman 9-4.
“I’m happy with the way I played today,” Wu, who now resides in China, said afterwards through an interpreter, “but to be honest I have no confidence that I can win the tournament. “ Of course nobody who knows pool believes that.
On the women’s side, which features 48 player divided into 8 groups of six, defending champion Kelly Fisher kept the express train barrelling down the tracks with a 7-0 win over China’s Liu Jia. The match took an incredible 20 minutes to complete.
Hall of Famer Allison Fisher won her first match, then had to face old rival Ga Young Kim of Korea in a marquee affair. Kim won 7-4.
Chinese stars Fu Xiaofang, Pan Xiaoting and Chen Siming all won their opening matches.
The group stages continue on Friday in Shanghai. After completion of play on day 2, the men’s field will be down to 32 players and the women’s field will be down to 16. Both tournaments will then be single elimination knockout through to the finals on Sunday.
THE 2013 CHINA 9 BALL OPEN - MEN
SHANGHAI - CHINA
THE GROUPS
GROUP A 1. ChangJung Lin (TPE) 2. So Shaw (IRA) 3. Zhu Hongming (TPE) 4. Al Shaheen Omar (KUW) 5. Han Haoxiang (CHN) 6. Zhu Xihe (CHN) 7. Xu Kailun (TPE) 8. Oi Naoyuki (JPN)
GROUP B 1. Yukio Akagariyama (JPN) 2. Nguyen Ann Tuan (VIE) 3. Salaheldeen Hussein (UAE) 4. M. Ahmad Al-Bin Ali (QAT) 5. Phil Burford (GBR) 6. Seungwoo Ryu (KOR) 7. Ke Bign Zhong (TPE) 8. Thorsten Hohmann (GER)
GROUP C 1. Fu Che Wei (TPE) 2. Sharik Aslam Sayed (SIN) 3. Dang Jinhu (CHN) 4. Fu Jianbo (CHN) 5. Kenny Kwok (HKG) 6. Rafath Habib (IND) 7. Alex Pagulayan (CAN) 8. Karl Boyes (GBR)
GROUP D 1. Li Hewen (CHN) 2. Carlo Biado (PHL) 3. John Morra (CAN) 4. Zhou Long (CHN) 5. Oscar Dominguez (USA) 6. Afrinneza Isral Nasution (IND) 7. Jeffrey De Luna (PHL) 8. Chris Melling (GBR)
GROUP E 1. Darren Appleton (GBR) 2. Jalal Yousef (VEN) 3. Cristian Tuvi (URU) 4. Wang Can (CHN) 5. Niels Feijen (NED) 6. Wu Jiaqing (CHN) 7. Nick Ekonomopoulos (GRE) 8. Nick Van Den Berg (NED)
GROUP F 1. Ko Pin Yi (TPE) 2. Chu Bingjie (CHN) 3. Zeng Zhaodong (CHN) 4. Johann Chua (PHL) 5. Tursaikhan Amarjargal 6. Nick Malai (ALB) 7. Lee Van Corteza (PHL) 8. Do The Kien (VIE)
Jasmin Ouschan Celebrates Reaching World No.2 Spot
Women's Tour Ranking Lists World Pool-Billiard Association Women's Professional Billiard Association www.wpa-pool.com www.wpba.com
29 August 2006
WOMEN'S TOUR RANKINGS SUMMARY
Rank
WPA
WPBA
1
Ga-Young Kim
Allison Fisher
2
Jasmin Ouschan
Karen Corr
3
Shin-Mei Liu
Monica Webb
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Lucky Londoners get another 9 Ball League for 2009
New Hounslow Pool League Rileys American Pool & Snooker - Hounslow 236 High Street Hounslow Greater London TW3 1HB. Tel: 020 85704261 www.rileysltd.com
Every Friday 2009
New Hounslow Pool League
Zain Yousef is keen to set up a new 9 Ball League in Hounslow for players of all abilities to compete on a level playing field.
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Empire Pool Tour Announces The 2006 Midlands 8-Ball Open
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EMPIRE POOL TOUR MIDLANDS 8 BALL OPEN
After the massive success of the recent London Open, the Empire Pool Tour are expecting to rewrite the record books once again in Solihull.
Anyone who played in the London Open will know why this next event will have a full field, as they are expecting to bring the same big names to the event that were in London, plus some new star faces to boot, so don't leave it too late if you are thinking of entering!
The deadline for entries will be on the Wednesday before the actual event at midnight. The draw will then be done on the Thursday before the event, and published on the internet on Thursday afternoon.
Due to popular demand, we will be posting LIVE match results on the internet for ALL future EPT events.
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PartyPoker.com World Cup of Pool - Day 6 Final Results
The World Cup of Pool The Newport Centre Venue The Newport Centre 1 Kingsway Newport South Wales UK NP20 1UH Tel: 01633 656757 www.worldcupofpool.com
Tuesday-Sunday 22-27 August 2006
PHILIPPINES TAKE FIRST EVER PARTYPOKER.COM WORLD CUP OF POOL
The Filipino dream team of Efren Reyes and Francisco Bustamante become the inaugural PartyPoker.com World Cup of Pool Champions as they hammered Team USA 13-5 in front of a packed arena at the Newport Centre, South Wales.
The American duo of Earl Strickland and Rodney Morris were expected to make a match of it but a combination of bad luck and loose shots on the part of the Americans and unrelenting skill from the Filipinos meant there was only one winner.
With upwards of 900 people in the arena including a large contingent of expatriate Filipinos, the atmosphere was electric and the tension mounted as the two teams shared the first eight racks of the race-to-13 final...
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Chuey eats up the competition at Mickeys Poker Heat 8
New face takes the top prize and one of the few seats left in the $5,000 final.
New player Chuey took the monster final pot and won himself an entry into the MickeyFlynnsPoker.com $5,000 Final Table by wining the latest qualifier on Sunday.
A mere 22 runners eventually entered Qualifier No.8 - a tragically low number... If this was a pool tournament with $5,000 added there would be hundreds of runners, so many people missing this opportunity - maybe they can't play poker!
Ah well, more money for me - although I managed to miss the start of this one myself after my brother and sister paid me a surprise visit.
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Jayson is a Shaw Thing for the IPT
IPT World Open 8-Ball Championship, Reno, USA - Qualifier Rileys American Pool & Snooker 16 Semley Place VICTORIA Greater London SW1W 9QJ Tel: 020 7259 9753 Fax: 020 7259 9753 www.rileysltd.com www.internationalpooltour.com
Friday-Saturday 25-26 August 2006
Scottish Pool sensation, 17 year old Jayson Shaw.
Jayson Shaw the 17yo Scottish sensation claimed the last remaining place into the IPT World Open in Reno next week by beating Rico Diks of the Netherlands, Shaw was devastating from start to finish and even earned high praise from Tony Drago.
Qualifying for the World Open was no fluke either as the list of players he beat along the way will tell you, Andy Barnett, Christian Reimering, Andy Worthington, Vilmos Foldes, Mark Gray and of course Rico Diks to qualify..
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Another FREE PRIZE GIVE-AWAY!!!
MatchroomSportDVD.com and Pro9.co.uk Present: A Series of Free Prize Give-Aways Exclusively for Pro9.co.uk Members www.MatchroomSportDVD.com
Sunday 27 August 2006
Another great Pro9 Free Give-Away in association with MatchroomSportDVD.
Those awfully nice people at MatchroomSportDVD have given us some of their fabulous DVD's and we're giving everyone the chance to win them in our FREE prize GIVE-AWAY.
The DVD's are the usual awesome quality you would expect from MatchroomSport and feature some of the most thrilling action and the best trick shots ever recorded.
Now's your chance to kick-start your pool DVD collection by winning a TOTALLY FREE TO ENTER competition with Pro9.co.uk.
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PRO9 has established an outstanding reputation as Europes No.1 source for information on American Pool in the UK and Europe.
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. The men are playing race to 11 alternate break, while the women are playing race to 9, alternate break.
